Recent updates posted to Arborealis

It has been a very busy few months here at Arborealis, with recent updates to the website in line with WordPress’s new Full Site Editor method for designing, launching, and maintaining a website. At this date, we have completed about two-thirds of this task. We might have made greater progress but have continued to publish … Read more

The Halifax Explosion, 6th December 1917: Epitaph for Merle Huggins, a schoolgirl

On this day, 6th December 2015, a ceremony is underway to commemorate the Halifax Explosion which devastated the north end of the city ninety-eight years ago. Every year, people gather beside the Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower, to mark the wartime marine disaster which killed 2,000 people, injured another 9,000, and left 25,000 homeless. One-third … Read more

Acknowledgements (the first iteration)

This morning dawned unseasonably cold and damp, more like mid-November than mid-September. After fighting with myself over the unseemliness, let alone the cost, eventually I gave in and turned on the furnace to take the chill out of the air. As my cerebrum began to defrost, it became apparent that this was no day to … Read more

Data management and moving social history work to the Web

Talk about a data management problem! and trying to make sense of all that data. I have been researching my paternal (English) and maternal (Irish)‡ lines for fourteen years. As of today,§ the Genealogy folder on my computer contains 12.98 GB of data. According to an article posted to the BBC’s web site on December … Read more